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Suggested hard sci-fi light reading: "Cosm" by Gregory Benford, 1999. A universe the size of a bowling ball created in a laboratory. The scientist responsible f
by HocusLocus 1y ago
Suggested hard sci-fi light reading: "Cosm" by Gregory Benford, 1999. A universe the size of a bowling ball created in a laboratory. The scientist responsible for it, keeping it safe and on the run from gvt spooks. They want to protect it for as long as it lasts, and since its time is as relative as its size, they won't have long to wait.
- mmh0000 1y agoAdded. Opinions: A) I love all the scifi book recommendations that cone up on HN B) i wish you’d all stop recommending great and amazing books. My queue is so backlogged and jammed I'm never going to catch up.
- arto 1y agoSo many books, so little time...
- mewpmewp2 1y agoIf only we had an even bigger universe, we would have more time... is that how it works?
- figassis 1y agoLike this? https://hacker-recommended-books.vercel.app/category/5/past-6-months/page/0/0 https://hacker-recommended-books.vercel.app/category/5/past-...
- dwaltrip 1y agoThat’s a very cool app, but I think it is missing many, many references to books in HN comments? It only has like 15 total sci-fi books. I don’t see any of my comments mentioning some sci-fi books.
- figassis 1y agoIt's a bit old. I bookmarked it a while ago, I don't think it has an update mechanism. A daily frontpage pull + AI parsing should be enough to keep it up to date.
- baw-bag 1y agoThere needs to be some kind of hackernews library or goodread. I have enjoyed many books (and some no so much) but always on the look out for books.
- acjacobson 1y agoYou'd like this then: https://hackernewsbooks.com https://hackernewsbooks.com
- lttlrck 1y agoThat would be fantastic.
- RGamma 1y agoWhat's a couple dozen books (and video games) in my backlog when I have a thousand websites there?
- fibonachos 1y agoSame here. My interest in the Sci-Fi genre started with an HN comment recommending Blindsight, by Peter Watts. Several comments and sci-fi series later, and I’m currently reading about spacefaring sentient spiders.
- donohoe 1y agoPlease share the queue!
- HocusLocus 1y agoOK then, I'd be remiss if I didn't mention my own sci-fi book I put out there free forever to listen ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mtxgpaXp9vA https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mtxgpaXp9vA ) and free forever to read/download/listen ( https://archive.org/details/stargazer-steven-pitzl https://archive.org/details/stargazer-steven-pitzl ) because I don't want to navigate the self-publishing world, just want some feedback before I die. Only joking, I'm remiss anyways.
- landtuna 1y agoThis sounds similar to Horton Hears a Who.
- jldl805 1y agoThey exist in the same cinematic universe.
- Xophmeister 1y agoI seem to remember a similar Star Trek episode; DS9, IIRC.
- ars 1y agoI remember that, and the enormous plot hole that they could move the thing in a transporter!
- throwawaymaths 1y ago"playing god", s2e17
- sleepybrett 1y agoRick and Morty episode (season 2 episode 6, 'The Ricks Must be Crazy') where it turns out rick has created a whole universe inside his spaceship battery who's whole purpose is to produce energy to run his spaceship. A scientist within this microverse creates a miniverse ....
- npodbielski 1y agoShould not be microverse inside miniverse?
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- veqq 1y agoMicrocosmic God - Theodore Sturgeon (1941)